Hook and eye



AJ. F. SGHOEPPL.

(No Model.)

HOOK AND EYE.

PatenteduDec. 11,1894.

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JOSEPH FRANK SCHOEPPL, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

HooK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,800, dated December 11, 1894. Application filed May 5, 1894. Serial No. 510,151| (No model.)

-ment and held secure without the further necessity of stitching, if desired.

It also has for its object to provide a hook and eye connection which, when inserted in the garment will securely clamp the fabric and assume a rigid or fixed relation thereto,

`and bethereby held from'lapping or bending outward from the fabric.V

Furthermore it has for its object to provide a hook and eye connection of a simple and economical construction, stamped out of and formed of a resilient sheet metal, which when once secured in the garment cannot be pulled out from Ithe fabric in ordinary use.

With other minor objects in view, which hereinafter will appear, the invention consists in such peculiar combination and relation of parts, rst described i-n detail and then particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a garment with my improved hook. and eye connection attached thereto. Eig. 2 is a front view of the preferred form of my improved hook member as applied to the fabric.' Fig. 3 is a' rear view of the same. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the hook and eye members joined together. Figs. 5 and 6 are views illustrating the different ways of connecting the same to the fabric bysupplemental fastening means. Fig. 7 is a view of a hook portion having barb members, for a purpose hereinafter-described. Figs. 8 and 9 are perspective views of the preferred form of hook and eye members. Fig.

.10 is an inverted perspective view of the hook shown in Fig. 8. Figs. l1 and 12 are respectively top and bottom views of a simpliiied construction of hook, and Fig. 13 is a longitudinal section thereof.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by letters, A indicates the hook member and B Ethe eye member, which lin the preferred construction are formed substantially in the manner shown in Figs. 2, 3, 8 and 9, and such formed side wings e, which are ot" a suitable length, preferably project forward at the side edges of the member c and converge toward each other at their inner ends, which ends are preferably pointed as shown, whereby they will readily pierce and penetrate the fabric. y

The outer ends of the said wings extend slightly beyond the lateral projecting portions c of the body, to form shoulders f, which serve, when thel wings have been inserted through the fabric, to prevent the withdrawal of the hook member. f

The extension or clamp member c, is slit, to form a. tongue or Vhump member'y g, which is bent up'as a springvmlember, the front end of which has a button or concaved head portion g which forms a detent tohold the eye within the hook when in engagement therewith, the resiliency of the metal allowing the eye to freely press such tongue down as it is slipped into engagement with such hook.

So far as described, it will be noticed, 'that by providing a central extension or clamp member c, arranged in a plane to the front of the side Wings, the-fabric will be tightly clampedbetween such member c, and the side wings as shown in Fig. 4, thereby rendering the use of supplemental fastening means not necessary, and also thereby serv-ing4 to hold the wing members closely up to the fabric under all conditions, preventing such wings from flapping up from the fabric and avoiding the possibility of the printed ends press- IOO ing against the body of the user, which is likely to occur in similar devices, Where the ends of the penetrating prongs are secured to the back of the fabric by stitching. Furthermore, by forming an extension or clamp member, in the manner shown, such can be also utilized from which to cut the spring detent or hump member, avoiding the necessity of slitting the hook portion proper, as has heretofore been done, thereby allowing such hook to be formed of a member having an uncut broad face, which can be utilized as a mark plate, to receive a desired trade mark, or other ornamentation, besides thereby increasing the strength of such hook portion.

For use as trousers hook and eye connections and suspender hooks, which must of necessity stand great strain, such hooks are made of a heavier (thicker) metal and formed without the spring hook portions as shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13, the base member being cut out to make it lighter, as shown.

In its simplest form the eye 7a is formed of a body portion or eye bar Z, which is slightly raised at or about its central portion, and slopes down at its ends, whence, asin the case of the hook before described, it merges in short Wing members m projected similarly to the hook wings and acts in the same manner to engage the material. In this construction however and in some of the simplified forms of the hook members, the wings are formed solid,and terminate at the converging ends in barbs a n, over the spurs a of which the stitches can be passed as shown in Fig. 7 when asupplemental securing means is used to secure the connect-ions.

The supplemental connections while not absolutely necessary for the hook members, as they are practically securely held by the clamp extensions c from flapping up are sometimes used and such consists in passing stitches through openings in the wings as in Fig. 5 or tapes passed through such openings and secured to the fabric as shown in Fig. 6.

It will be noticed by reference to Figs. 2 and 12 the points of the Wings are spaced apart tor be in line with the curved or sloping portion of the lateral extensions b of the hook member, and the sloping ends of the cross bar of the bail member, such arrangement being provided so that when the wings have been inserted, the openings made thereby will fit on the aforesaid sloping portions of the hook and eye and thereby allowing the material to lie evenly between the shoulders of such wings, so as not to fold or wrinkle, Wllliiph would occur were such arms made para e.

While I prefer to make the side arms at a lower plane than the central tongue, it is manifest that when used on very thin fabric such are made in or nearlyin the same plane, or inclined down as shown in Fig. 13.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Ahook and eye connecting device form ed of a body portion having a hook member extended from one side thereof, Wings projected from the ends and an extension projected from the body centrally between the wings to a point beyond the hook portion, as set forth.

2. An improved hook and eye connection having a hook member having a flat uncut hook having a shank formed with a forwardly extending clamp member, said clamp member being slitted and formed with a spring tongue, and side or securing Wing members connected with the shank or clamp members all arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

3. An improved `hook portion for hook and eye connections, consisting of a flat hook member having a shank member formed of a` forwardly extending clamp portion, slitted and formed with a spring tongue, said clamp portion havinglateral downwardly bent members, and Wing members formed integral with such bent members1 said wings comprising rearwardly extending shoulders and for- Wardly extending pointed or barbed members, such wings being arranged in a plane back of the clamp member all arranged substantially as `shown and described.

JOSEPH FRANK SCI-IOEPPL. Witnesses:

A. B. REID, MARY M. I-IEDDEN. 

